Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
GEORGE SOROSI chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
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It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.
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The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
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If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
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When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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The financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
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Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.
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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.
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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That’s one of the positive features of markets. That’s why they function.
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